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Maize vs. Graze: Is Corn Dangerous For Cattle?
One of the biggest misconceptions floating around is that vegetable production is a more environmentally friendly alternative to meat production. However, studies show that the practices used in conventional vegetable farming may be more destructive than those used to produce meat. Growing corn, specifically, can lead to many destructive outcomes; however, a large majority of our…
5 Environmental Benefits of Regenerative Grazing
In Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World, Lynne Pledger and Ridge Shinn discuss how regenerative grazing can offer health benefits for consumers, livestock, and the environment alike. This practice has the power to not only improve our health and the broken food system, but can also provide a variety of environmental benefits as well. The following…
The Three Pillars of Immune Health
Staying healthy is at the top of everyone’s to-do lists. But what is the best way to do it? The key is keeping your immune health in check. While that sounds daunting, there are a lot of small tweaks we can make in our everyday lives to keep our immune system in tip-top shape. If…
Coronavirus: Facts and Figures
There are a lot of questions flying around about the current coronavirus; How does Covid-19 compare with previous coronaviruses and the flu virus? What do infection numbers and the death rate tell us? Does the race for vaccine development make sense? What are the chances of success? Will the vaccine be safe? It is only…
Rules for Regenerators: Search Out and Emphasize the Positive
Positive news stories about the state of our environment are few and far between. More common are stories that we’re almost at the point of irreparable damage, that if we don’t act now, it will be too late. While this may be true, it’s also important to recognize the positive steps nations have taken to…
An Update on Passive Solar Living from James Kachadorian
Not only are Chelsea Green authors experts in their fields, from organic farming to solar living to green building, but they’re also part of our extended family. So it’s always nice when we get an update on how things are going! The following note is from James Kachadorian, author of The Passive Solar House. To…
Fungi: All Around and Among Us
Fungi are fundamental to life. As decomposers, they are critical to the formation and sustenance of soils and ecosystems. As endlessly innovative chemists, they devise and secrete enzymes that can break down a vast variety of materials, mitigate bacterial and viral infections, and interact—for better or worse—with the bodies and brains of animals that consume…
Bacteria: Our Ancestors and Coevolutionary Partners
Fermentation is the transformation of food by various bacteria, fungi, and the enzymes they produce. People harness this transformative power in order to produce alcohol, to preserve food, and to make it more digestible, less toxic, and/or more delicious. It’s played an instrumental role in human cultural evolution and has become a cultural phenomenon of…
Growing Cold-Hardy Black Raspberries
Black raspberries are unique, delicious fruits that can be grown in almost any weather condition. Keep reading for tips & tricks on growing these delightful berries yourself! The following is an excerpt from Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts by Scott Serrano and Allyson Levy. It has been adapted for the web. Growing Cold-Hardy Black Raspberries For many years…
Human and Animal Alliances: A Mutual Partnership
When humans and animals interact, both parties benefit in some way from the exchange. While individuals may receive resources and feel a sense of joy & purpose from interacting with wildlife, the animals receive care & companionship from the humans. These alliances, when properly nurtured, can work wonders for our world. In the excerpt below…
What We Need To Achieve
With the climate crisis closing in, we need to consider what we need to do to make permanent, sustainable change for the better. We need a list of specific and realistic goals, and we need to push that list on those in power. The result will not be immediate, but if we follow through, we…
Why Raw Milk Cheese is Not Raw
Have you ever wanted to try out exotic and rare types of cheeses, made non-traditionally? Well you might not be able to if the FDA has anything to say about it! Non-traditional cheesemaking using raw milk is under attack for all the wrong reasons, and it has sparked a revolution of cheese-lovers to stand up…
To Create Climate-Secure Foodscapes, Think Like a Plant
The techniques and prophetic vision for achieving food security and foodscapes in the face of climate change contained in Gary Paul Nabhan‘s Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land may well need to be implemented across most of North America over the next half-century, and are already applicable in most of the semiarid West, Great…